(R) jus­tice Javed Iqbal takes charge as new NAB chief

Re­tired jus­tice Javed Iqbal on Wed­nes­day as­sumed com­mand as the new chief of the Na­tional Ac­count­abil­ity Bu­reau (NAB). Iqbal, who is re­plac­ing Qa­mar Za­man Chaudhry as the bu­reau’s chief, met with se­nior of­fi­cials in­clud­ing NAB’s di­rec­tor gen­eral op­er­a­tions and mem­bers of the pros­e­cu­tion wing dur­ing his first day in of­fice. Giv­ing the of­fi­cials their first task, the new NAB chief asked for the de­tails of all out­stand­ing cases, ref­er­ences and records. In a brief con­ver­sa­tion with the me­dia, Iqbal said that he would com­plete his pre­vi­ous as­sign­ment as the head of the miss­ing per­sons com­mis­sion by sub­mit­ting the re­port his team has com­piled, be­fore giv­ing up his post as the com­mis­sion’s head, Dawn News said. ”I have worked hard on the re­port and it will be sub­mit­ted soon,” he said.